Terrible fight with the wife today. She said she was suffering badly from a cold. I told her it was all in her head.

Noted scholar and dissident Noam Chomsky gave a talk last January in Ireland on world affairs, which is fascinating and available free as a 5-part podcast through ITunes. It’s title, the War on Terrorism.
For those who aren’t Ituning, I found a section of another talk which deals with the same subject and have reprinted [...]

Merry Christmas from the Queen of Doowop.  Click here.  Be sure to hang in there for the Ronnie Spector solo as performed by the white reindeer.

Many people, from George Orwell to George Carlin, have pointed out how governments twist language to suit their purposes. The Bush administration has invented so many euphemisms for its policies and blunders over the past six years, it is, alternately wicked funny and hard to notice them anymore.
Strange though that no one seems to have [...]

Anyone who liked Philip Roth’s 2005 novel about the ascendance and presidency of conservative Charles Lindberg will be chilled to the bone listening to the story of this family who settles, or tries to settle, in an unnamed city in the U.S.
The first segment of the Dec. 15th radio program, This American Life, challenges us [...]

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack gave a very mealy-mouthed endorsement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s sudden call for elections in the wake of sweeping Hamas victories last year.
Do we really think that the Palestinians, upon hearing that the U.S. backs Abbas, will decide to unelect Hamas? Could the U.S. State Department actually think [...]

Sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.

And other man, who remains inside his own house,
stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,
so that his children have to go [...]

A very simple, very beautiful story is told in this hour long video made up mostly of 16 millimeter film shot by Richard Proenneke, who left a mind-numbing assembly line job after almost losing his eyesight, and built, by hand, with no power other than his own, a simple, one-room log cabin in Alaska. [...]

Q: What did the presidential speechwriters tell their boss to say is happening in Iraq so he didn’t make it sound like we’re losing?
This week should, by all accounts, be the week that George W. Bush falls into the pigsty of history, surpassing in incompetence ineffectual leaders who merely inherited problems which they failed to [...]

My web designing friend, Ezra Alexander, currently traveling somewhere in the Baltic States, told me yesterday he’d figured out a simple way for casual readers of this blog to post comments.
Let’s try it out.
Gaze at this dude for a minute and guess some stuff about him. You can do it anonymously if [...]